Excerpts from My ENTJ Myers Briggs Assessment

I’m an ENTJ according to a Myers Briggs assessment I did almost a year ago when a consultant came in and assessed my firm’s management team:

Extraversion (E), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), Judgment (J)

Two of my ENTJ weaknesses–or “Opportunities For Growth” as the reference book sugar coats it–are as follows:

1. Be sensitive to others’ needs

2. Take care of routine and details

Sure enough, I have two long-gestating problems that match these weaknesses:

1. My wife has been asking me for about a year to ditch 3 towers of accumulated papers and books in our home office.

2.I’ve been mulling when to get back to a daily blogging routine for about a year.

When I was blogging daily from 2007 to mid-2013, I didn’t accumulate papers because I’d blog what I wanted to save, then ditch the paper. So this weekend as I finally show some sensitivity to to my wife’s need to have a clean office (and her need to throw all this shit away if I don’t finally listen), I’ll also resume taking care of daily routine and details using this blog.

With that, here are some ENTJ excerpts I want to keep from this Myer’s Briggs book before I toss it.

Interestingly when we went through the process on this, we were asked to self-assess before we took the test that resulted in me being a ENTJ. My self assessment said that I was ISTP, which the book describes the following way:

The Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceptive

Work label: Operator -Quiet and reserved -Cool observer of life -Usually interested in impersonal principals -Interested in the how and why of things -Does not waste personal energy

Opportunities For Growth -Develop a sensitivity to others -Push to have ideas understood -Be open to the “big picture” -Set long-term personal goals -Communicate more

To Function Best, ISTPs Need: -Variety, skills and techniques to master -Challenge of problems to solve and something to fix -Freedom to work independently -A sense of bringing about something new and important

They Are Frustrated By: -Restrictions, emotional situations -Being told how to work -Anything slow -Social requirements

The Irritate Others By: -Not communicating -Shooting from the hip -Lack of follow through -Appearing anti-social and cold